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Orotund   Listen
noun
Orotund  n.  The orotund voice or utterance






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Orotund" Quotes from Famous Books



... good-sized hall, third story. Plain boards, whitewash, plenty of cheap chairs, no ornament or color, yet all scrupulously clean and sweet. Some three hundred persons present, mostly patients. Everything, the prayers, a short sermon, the firm, orotund voice of the minister, and most of all, beyond any portraying, or suggesting, that audience, deeply impress'd me. I was furnish'd with an arm-chair near the pulpit, and sat facing the motley, yet perfectly well-behaved and orderly congregation. The quaint dresses and ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

... "clamant" than carmine, vermilion, crimson, Costlier than diamond or ultramarine— A deuce of a theme to chant lyrics or hymns on, Or rummage for orotund "rot," is Ruthene. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 • Various



Words linked to "Orotund" :   large, bombastic, tumid, turgid, rotund, round



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